My wife has lot's of Photos on her Vista computer that I want access to and can't seem to figure it out. I need step-by-step help in setting this up, please.I want access to her photos so I can pull them over and put them in iPhoto so that we can see them in the living room on our AppleTV. I could just burn a disk... but then I would be doing that every time she shoots new pics.

I have searched several articles, but none seemed to make sense to me.

She's connected to the AEBT via ethernet and I'm wireless... though that shouldn't matter. I guess I need her workgroup name and user name and IP?If so, I need to know where to get these items and where to plug them in.If you know of an article that aptly describes this process... that would work for me.

That's my next step I think... but ti's asking me to assign a new user or pick an existing one. What user name do I use? I tried the Dave-Bears-Mac-Pro.local name... no go.

You mean Vista is asking for a user name? Use the user name that is associated with her photos folder if so.

Also that long user name for the Mac has been know to cause problems with sharing, and other things. I don't know why OS X still wants to use such long names. Try MacPro.local or something like that. Reboot after changing the name, I've seen where that sometimes is needed to get the name to propagate correctly to other machines. After starting sharing on the PC, reboot both also if her folder still doesn't show up.

I had all the shares enabled in Leopard and with the sharing accounts from the windows machines and could see everything that was shared on every computer.

Now, after upgrading to Snow Leopard, I can see and get to the shared folders on the MacBook from both windows machines, but in Snow Leopard the network shows up empty. Nada. No changes other than the upgrade to Snow Leopard and everything under the Network settings seem to be the same, so I bet it is pretty safe to assume the culprit is Snow Leopard and that something has changed underneath with the networking.

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